NASA NTRS · 20190027711
Transient Astrophysics Probe: White Paper
Abstract
The Transient Astrophysics Probe (TAP) is a wide-field multi-wavelength transient mission proposed for flight starting in the late 2020s. The mission instruments include unique ``Lobster-eye'' imaging soft X-ray optics that allow an approximately 1600-degrees-squared Field of View (FoV); a high sensitivity, 1-degree-squared FoV soft X-ray telescope; a 1-degree-squared FoV Infrared telescope with bandpass 0.6 to 3 microns; and a set of 8 NaI gamma-ray detectors. TAP's most exciting capability will be the observation of tens per year of X-ray and Infrared counterparts of gravitational waves (GWs) involving stellar-mass black holes and neutron stars detected by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ) / Virgo / KAGRA (Kamioka (Japan) Gravitational Wave Detector) / LIGO-India, and possibly several per year X-ray counterparts of GWs from supermassive black holes, detected by LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) and Pulsar Timing Arrays. TAP will also discover hundreds of X-ray transients related to compact objects, including tidal disruption events, supernova shock breakouts, and Gamma-Ray Bursts from the epoch of reionization.
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Camp, Jordan, Abel, Josh, Barthelmy, Scott, Bautz, Mark, Behar, Ehud, Berger, Edo, Spolaor, Sarah, Cenko, S. Brad, Cornish, Neil, Dal Canton, Tito, Fryer, Chris, Gezari, Suvi, Gorenstein, Paul, Guiriec, Sylvain, Hartmann, Dieter, Kalogera, Vicky, Kouveliotou, Chryssa, Kruk, Jeffrey, Kutyrev, Alexander, Margutti, Raffaella, Marshall, Francis, Metzger, Brian, Miller, Cole, Noble, Scott, Perkins, Jeremy, Ptak, Andrew, Purcell, Bill, Racusin, Judith, Schlieder, Josh, Schittman, Jeremy, Sesana, Alberto, Shawhan, Peter, Singer, Leo, Van der Horst, Alex, Willingale, Richard, Wood, Kent, Zhang, William. 2019-01-01. Transient Astrophysics Probe: White Paper. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20190027711
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